Installing a temporary license

If you do not have the required licenses you may be able to try out the software for a limited time.

The options are:

  • Create a 48-hour license for Origin if you are not able to sign in and use your subscription or if you have purchased a perpetual license but it has not yet been assigned to your controller.
  • Create a 30-day Demonstration license for Origin if the controller does not have a current perpetual license. This type of temporary license is available on supported Windows and Android controllers.
  • Create a 30-day Trial license for specific Origin apps if the controller has a current perpetual license, but no license for the specific app you want to try. This type of temporary license is available only on supported Windows controllers.

The 48 hour license enables you to keep working when:

  • your subscription license is locked to another controller, or when you haven't locked your subscription to your current controller and you are now on-site without an internet connection.

  • your perpetual license has not yet been assigned to your controller and you need to get started on-site.

To install a 48-hour license:

  1. If Origin is not yet installed on the controller, use Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager to install Origin and select the Origin apps you want to install.

  2. Run Origin for the first time.

  3. Tap at the top of the Projects screen to open the Sign in screen and then tap Help, I can't sign in! at the bottom right of the Sign in screen to activate a 48 hour license.

All installed Origin apps will run with full functionality for 48 hours. To continue working beyond that period, you must sign in with your usual Origin subscription or run Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager and install a perpetual license within the 48 hour license period. You can check the number of remaining hours in the About screen in Origin.

If your controller does not have a current perpetual license, you can create a temporary demonstration license for Origin.

Demonstration licenses can also be used on a desktop computer for training and testing purposes.

Demonstration licenses enable you to use the Origin General Survey app, as well as the Origin Roads app.

The purpose of a demonstration license is to trial the software for evaluation. A full Origin license must be purchased for production work.

Demonstration licenses are limited to adding 30 points per job, however large jobs created elsewhere can be opened and reviewed. Demonstration licenses allow connections to GNSS receivers and total stations for the first 30 days. After 30 days you can only emulate a total station survey using a manual instrument (Windows and Android), and emulate a GNSS survey (Windows only).

  1. In Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager, make sure Origin is selected in the product bar.

    A message advising the controller is not licensed for Origin appears.

    If the device is licensed for other products, you may need to select Show all in the product bar to see this message.

  2. Select the Create demo licenses tab, if it is not already selected.

  3. Tap Sign in and then sign in using your Trimble ID.

    When you have signed in, a Origin license is automatically created.

  4. Select the Install updates tab and install the software.

Once you have purchased a perpetual license or a subscription, run Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager again to uninstall the demonstration software and install the full software version:

  1. In Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager, select the Install updates tab.

  2. If you have purchased a subscription, select the Convert Spectra Geospatial Origin Demo to Subscription check box.

  3. Click Install.

  4. Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager offers to uninstall the software before installing the purchased version. Click Accept.

    If you choose not to uninstall the software, then the applications remain installed on the device, but cannot be used.

    The demonstration software components are uninstalled.

  5. Run Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager again.

  6. In Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager, select the Install updates tab.

  7. Select the components to install.

  8. Click Install.

If the controller has a current Origin (General Survey) perpetual license, you can use the Try software tab to create a temporary license to for supporting applications or trial software that can be installed to the connected device.

Supporting applications are applications that might install onto a desktop computer to support software that is installed on a device.

Trial software are additional Origin apps that you would like to try for 30 days. Trial software licenses typically expire after 30 days.

Trial versions of select Origin applications are fully-functional and can be installed only once per device. The length of the trial period for the software is shown in Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager for Windows.

  1. Start Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager for Windows.

  2. Make sure Origin is selected in the product bar.

  3. Select the Try software tab.
  4. Select the appropriate check box(es) and then tap Create license.

  5. Tap Sign in and then sign in using your Trimble ID.

    When you have signed in, The Spectra Geospatial Installation Manager window switches to the Install updates tab and shows the software available to install, including the software you just selected.

  6. Tap Install.